A 28-year-old owner of a hairdressing salon at Amakom in Kumasi, Akwasi Asiamah is in the grip of the police for locking up a police officer and personnel from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in his salon.
Asiamah was arrested last Wednesday and is currently in police custody.
His action followed the attempt by the police officer and the ECG personnel to arrest him for illegal power connection and also owing the company to the tune of over GH¢7000 as a result of an earlier illegal connection.
The acting General Manager of Public Relations and Communications for the Ashanti Strategic Business Unit of the ECG, Mr Erasmus Kyere Baidoo, said on January 9, 2021, personnel from the ECG visited his salon, ‘On Point Salon’ at Amakom and detected that Mr Asiamah tapped into a single-phase energy metre to connect power to his salon.
He said it was detected that he had consumed power illegally for a period of 12 months which amounted to GH¢7486.56, that is 6792 Kwh, and was accordingly billed.
According to Mr Baidoo, after several unsuccessful attempts to get the salon operator to pay the bill, the personnel from the ECG, together with the police, visited his salon again on February 2, 2021, “only to discover that Mr Asiamah had illegally reconnected the salon from a nearby shop and was working.
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